tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-86673058889504523 2013-05-22T19:53:02-07:00 Kitchen Kwento chronicles the bitter and sweet connections between farming, food, stories, and land through a Filipino/American lens. TypePad KitchenKwentohttp://feedburner.google.com tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b01901c65f886970b 2013-05-22T19:53:02-07:00 2013-05-22T23:50:24-07:00

I spent the past weekend up north with Movement Generation's ecological leadership retreat. I am still taking in the depth and breadth of that space, the people, and unexpected places that the gathering awakened (and recreating the delicious recipes...). One afternoon by the freshwater pond, we were asked to reflect...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/_5V1Fm06qBw" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2013/05/writing-the-way-home.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b017eeadaff6e970d 2013-05-06T12:36:26-07:00 2013-05-07T21:50:43-07:00

All things move in cycles. "So, where is your farm?" I am sometimes asked. "I don't have one," I reply. At times the response is simply, "Oh." Or, "Why don't you get one yet?" Or, especially if the questioning is from relatives, "Then why did you spend all that time...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/hszgmgMVUkc" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2013/05/on-farming-and-saturns-return.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b017c36a006e8970b 2013-02-06T14:52:24-08:00 2013-02-08T08:35:03-08:00

Getting back to the source. Photo credit: Gigi Miranda I am lucky to have come of age where "local" was a way of life. In Hawai'i, ʻāina is land. Nurturing the land is to mālama ʻāina. I remember those who continued traditional practices - from pounding poi, to gathering limu,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/hcoIK6cs9oE" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2013/02/on-being-%C4%81inatarian-a-conversation-with-gigi-miranda.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b017c359ecb99970b 2013-01-12T23:36:20-08:00 2013-01-17T23:04:20-08:00

New year's arrived on a ridge in Tagaytay, the Philippines. It shifted into place somewhere between starlight, the smoke of fireworks, dark water, and poppers echoing into the night. My parents, sister and I were like children: we jumped up and down for luck, ran circles holding bags of clanging...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/il8TTvVClVI" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2013/01/newyear2013.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a0120a8f44c5a970b017d3e642fbd970c 2012-12-02T15:58:09-08:00 2012-12-06T01:41:56-08:00

There is a time to simmer, and there is a time to toss it in and turn up the fire. As an undergraduate, I realized with dismay that I was not meant to be a biologist. I was more interested in biology's sweeping narratives of evolution, adaptation and attraction than...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/KitchenKwento/~4/WiHliYJ5PfY" height="1" width="1"/>

Aileen Suzara http://www.kitchenkwento.com/2012/12/how-to-cook-an-aching-heart.html